Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.14-rc1,6.2-rc5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5425109
  • published17 Apr 2023
  • disclosed12 Jan 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jan 2023

CVE-2023-1652  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.2-rc5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the nfsd4_ssc_setup_dul() function in fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c. This could allow an attacker to crash the system or it may lead to a kernel information leak.

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